Leaving the anger-filled pages of Facebook and Twitter and coming to my WordPress blog, is like finding a sun-dappled forest glade, and lying with my back against an oak tree, chewing on a blade of grass, and listening to the leaves rustling in the breeze.
WordPress Reader is my sun-dappled forest glade, and your posts are the leaves. Your emotions, expressed in prose and poem, waft on the breeze through my mind, wrapping my heart and soul in flowering tendrils of joy and grief.
My joy comes from the joy you express so eloquently with your words. My grief is the grief I feel for the pain you express, the words you choose helping to ease you back into life.
I am here, always available, to listen, to laugh with you, to cry with you, to lend you a shoulder to rest upon while your belly shakes with laughter, while your heart breaks with sadness. I will support you with a smile, a caress, an ear, with encouragement, confidence, and love.
You don’t even have to know my name.
Writers Envy 
Yeah, l almost never go on Facebook anymore, and I started hacking away at who I follow on Twitter. Cute cat pics, sure, I’ll follow. Connecting with other writers, yep. But the moment it gets all preachy and angry, I unfollow. Even if it’s an author I love.
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Great post, Will. (And I gave up on Facebook.) WordPress is indeed different, and I’m thankful for that!
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A night and day difference! Thanks for commenting 🙂
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WordPress is like home. Like minded souls connecting and chatting. Thank you for expressing the exact way I feel about this wonderful community!
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❤ They need a heart button here 🙂
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Yes, yes they do!
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I really loved this post. I shared it in my Posts of Note today. 🙂
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Ohh, thank you so much. I appreciate your thoughtfulness 🙂
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Warm in words
Cold in person
Said it all
In one word
Hudson
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I love this post and have to admit I feel the same way. WP is like a haven away from FB.
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Thank you, Miriam (I love your name). I turned off FB notifications so I have even less desire to browse. I use FB mainly to post my writing these days. Thanks for reading!
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I’m the same Will. I’ve turned off my notifications and I use it to share the occasional travel story but that’s largely it.
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Thnakyou for sharing and I will say this was just beautiful. I prefer to be on WordPress than Facebook and Twitter.
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Thank you! I appreciate your comment.
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Yes. So real and raw here. I feel like you get to know people here better than the people you really know in life. Our walls come down and we feel more free to truly express what is in our hearts and on our minds.
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A few posts on WP is all it takes to know someone. I think that’s pretty wonderful.
Thank you for commenting 😊❤
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